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Kentucky high school placed on lockdown after disgruntled teacher sent threatening messages. Picture: WDRBSource:Supplied

A KENTUCKY high school was placed on lockdown after a disgruntled teacher sent threatening messages to faculty members in which she suggested she would harm the school.

Dusty Witherspoon, a foreign language teacher at Bullitt Central High School, was already suspended from work when she enteredthe school grounds in violation of her suspension.

When she was told she was not allowed on school property and was asked to leave, Witherspoon sent a menacing text message to another school employee in which she made threats, deemed “terroristic” by police, against the high school.

Witherspoon sent a menacing text message to another school employee in which she made threats. Picture: WDRBSource:Supplied

According to the arrest warrant, local media reports, the text said: “I’m about to (expletive) some (expletive) up … if they wanna get ugly it’s going to get reeeaaalll ugly [sic]. I’m at my limit. I’ve put up with enough (expletive). I’m done.”

The threat was not specifically directed toward any of the students or any of the faculty or staff, Shepherdsville Police said it was very agitated, very aggressive, very angry — meeting the criteria of “terroristic threatening”.

As a result, the school was placed on a “soft lockdown”, where students were asked to remain in their classrooms, until the suspect was taken into custody.

“The decision by school administrators to go on soft lockdown was timely and appropriate,” Sheperdsville Police said.